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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2005
  • Latest Book:
    March 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Capitol Cases Mystery

1 - Dead on Arrival (Dec-2017)
2 - National Maul (Feb-2018)
3 - Dark Horse (Apr-2018)

An Elizabeth Tyler Mystery

1 - What She Lost (May-2018)
2 - What She Found (Aug-2018)
3 - What She Knows (Sep-2018)

Joe Tyler

1 - Thread of Hope (Jun-2014)
2 - Thread of Suspicion (Jun-2014)
3 - Thread of Betrayal (Jun-2014)
4 - Thread of Innocence (Jun-2014)
5 - Thread of Fear (Jan-2015)
6 - Thread of Revenge (Nov-2015)
7 - Thread of Danger (Jul-2016)
8 - Thread of Doubt (Sep-2017)
9 - Thread of Truth (Apr-2019)

A Moose River Mystery

1 - The Murder Pit (May-2014)
2 - Last Resort (Sep-2014)
3 - Alibi High (Nov-2014)
4 - Foul Play (Apr-2015)
5 - You've Got Blackmail (Oct-2015)
6 - Assisted Murder (Apr-2016)
7 - Death At The Diner (Nov-2016)
8 - School of Murder (Dec-2017)
9 - Dead in the Water (Apr-2018)
9.5 - Wreck The Halls (Dec-2018)
10 - Dead in the Dorm (Jun-2020)

A Noah Braddock Mystery

1 - Killer Swell (Jun-2005)
2 - Wicked Break (Jul-2006)
3 - Liquid Smoke (Sep-2011)
4 - Drift Away (Jun-2014)
5 - Locked In (Feb-2016)
6 - Impact Zone (May-2017)
7 - Wipe Out (Oct-2017)
8 - Close Out (Oct-2018)
9 - Deep Water (Jul-2019)

A Rainy Day Mystery

1 - Bought the Farm (Sep-2016)
2 - When The Rooster Kills (Oct-2016)
3 - Crack of Death (Nov-2016)
4 - Planting Evidence (May-2017)
5 - One Bad Egg (Jun-2017)
6 - Bale Out (Jul-2017)
7 - Last Straw (Aug-2017)
8 - Cut and Died (Sep-2017)
9 - Sour Grapes (Mar-2018)
10 - Tying the Knot (Jun-2018)

A Sunny Springfield Mystery

1 - Dead by Dinner Time (May-2018)
2 - Beauty and the Thief (Jul-2018)
3 - Cutting Ties (Sep-2018)

Book List in Order: 50 titles



  • Noah remembers Marilyn Crier as the stuck-up mother of his high school girlfriend, Kate. Back then she thought Noah was strictly out of her daughter's league. Now she's appeared out of the blue because Kate's missing, and she thinks Noah might be abl...



  • Noah Braddock is just living from wave to wave, catching a nice break from his private eye business. The last time he traded his surfboard for a gun, Carter Hamm, his wild and woolly best friend, nearly died. So when a man asks Noah to look for his m...



  • The third novel in the Noah Braddock series!Private eye Noah Braddock has finally found peace in his once tumultuous relationship with Detective Liz Santangelo and has called a tentative truce with his alcoholic mother, Carolina. So when lawyer Darcy...



  • Daisy Savage finally has everything she wants. A new husband. A bunch of kids. A charming old house. What she doesn't want is a dead body. When a frozen pipe in the basement of her century-old home leads her and her husband downstairs into a newly di...



  • Forced to leave San Diego after his life is destroyed by tragedy, Noah is hiding and trying to heal on the Florida Panhandle. Paralyzed by fear and the pain of loss, he’s isolated himself and given up everything that meant anything to him. When a y...



  • So close... Joe Tyler is close to finding his daughter. After a narrow miss in Minnesota, Joe follows a money trail to Denver, hoping to finally find Elizabeth, the daughter who was stolen from him nearly a decade earlier. Accompanied by his ex-wif...



  • This is the FIRST book in the Joe Tyler series.If someone took your child, how soon would you stop looking for her? If someone accused your best friend of a terrible crime, when would you stop defending him?Seven years after Joe Tyler's daughter Eliz...



  • Elizabeth Tyler is finally home.After years spent searching for her, Joe Tyler found his daughter and brought her home. But things aren't perfect and Joe is still looking.Not for his daughter, but for the person responsible for her disappearance.As E...



  • Joe Tyler has a picture. After years of looking for his missing daughter, Elizabeth, and coming up empty, he finally has something. A picture of her shortly after her abduction, showing her with another girl in Minneapolis, far away from her home in...






  • All Daisy Savage wants is a vacation. A romantic getaway with her husband. Seven blissful days at a fancy resort to relax, recharge and renew.What she gets instead is a dead body at a campground.When Daisy and her husband Jake head north to Minnesota...



  • Daisy Savage has one goal when she signs up to volunteer at her daughter's high school: get her hours done and go home. But that's before she discovers the school's computer lab has been robbed over the weekend, leaving a shell-shocked staff and a co...



  • Joe Tyler finally has his daughter â€" and the answers to what happened that fateful day years ago. After spending nearly a decade searching for her, Elizabeth is home and the people who were responsible for her disappearance were tried and convicted...



  • Snow White is missing. When the star of the Moose River community theater’s production goes missing, Daisy is reluctantly drawn to the case â€" and not just because her two youngest daughters have been cast in the play. Nothing adds up about the gi...



  • When Jake’s ex-wife moves to Minnesota, Daisy does her best to make Stella Gardner feel welcome. She puts on a smile as she helps Stella move into her new home, and she even invites her to Thanksgiving dinner, hoping for a smooth transition as they...



  • Joe Tyler’s life is almost normal.His daughter is back home. His relationship with her mother is stronger than ever. The three of them are living under one roof, eager to start the next chapter of their lives together.But one mistake is about to sh...



  • Noah Braddock’s past won't leave him alone. After a self-imposed exile in Florida, Noah is back in San Diego, ready to face the fallout from the crime he committed. He doesn’t want to go to jail, but he doesn’t want to live his life as a fugiti...



  • Birthdays are a time for celebration…and murder?Daisy and her family travel to sunny Florida to help celebrate Jake’s grandmother’s 100th birthday, intent on reconnecting with Jake’s extended family and enjoying the sites. Things immediately ...



  • Joe Tyler knows life will never be normal.Not after his daughter Elizabeth’s abduction and near decade-long absence, and not after his ex-wife’s murder. He just wants a chance to put his life back together, even though he knows there will always ...



  • Rainy Day is headed to greener pastures. Divorced, and with kids out on their own, she uses a recent inheritance to make big changes to her life. She quits her job and, on a whim, buys a hobby farm in rural Virginia, a hundred miles from her long-tim...






  • Small towns like big stories.And Rainy Day is right in the middle of one. Rainy is settling into her new life in the small town of Latney, but when a young woman goes missing, she finds herself thrown in the spotlight again. Because the townspeople t...



  • Rainy is enjoying her first slice of summer in Latney.Until a dead body disrupts her plans.Tasked with doing a favor for Pastor Declan Murphy, Rainy stumbles upon the body of one of his elderly congregants. The inept Sheriff Lewis soon attempts to im...



  • When Daisy's daughter, Emily, takes a job at a local restaurant she ends up serving more than she bargained for.Moose River’s beloved Officer Ted falls ill after eating some tasty tacos, and all signs point to foul play. Emily worries that her job ...



  • Noah Braddock needs a job.After striking a deal with the district attorney, Noah is settling back in to life in San Diego. But work is hard to come by, so when he's offered a case involving a mysterious girl and some photographs, he accepts the job. ...



  • Dead bodies, burned-down buildings, a kidnapping…Rainy thinks she’s seen it all in the small town of Latney. After six months in her new home and her new town, she’s ready to focus on something other than solving crimes…like her budding relat...



  • Thanksgiving is right around the corner and Rainy is looking forward to everything the holiday has to offer: good food, great desserts, and the company of family. But living in Latney has a way of complicating even the best-laid plans, especially whe...



  • Up in smoke. It’s a month before Christmas, and Rainy Day feels like everything is going up in smoke. Literally. Because not only is her relationship with Gunnar looking like a pile of burnt ashes, but Declan’s church is, too.After a winter storm...



  • Christmas is right around the corner and bells are definitely ringing. Alarm bells.Rainy Day thinks she has the perfect holiday planned…until Sheriff Lewis shows up with a search warrant for her property. Determined to keep this latest skirmish fro...



  • A winter storm brings more than just snow to Rainy’s doorstep. It also brings Mack Mercy, her former boss at Capitol Cases, and a whole heap of trouble.Coming home from a conference, Mack’s car skids off an icy road during the storm. He manages t...



  • Joe Tyler is done with investigations. Or at least he tells himself he is.He has a new job teaching history at the local high school, and his daughter, Elizabeth, is no longer at home, as she's living nearby, in her third year of college.But somethin...






  • The unexpected death of a friend in the surfing community brings an old classmate into Noah’s life. A classmate looking for answers.When Mitchell Henderson, the owner of The Blue Wave motel and an icon in the local surfing community, dies in a car ...



  • Mack Mercy never turns down a case. When his latest office manager quits, Mack jumps at the chance to avoid doing the one thing he needs to do: hire a replacement at Capitol Cases, the PI firm he’s owned for twenty years.Glen Pulaski, a new client,...



  • Daisy Savage and her family were promised a weekend of fun at Northwoods University. They got a dead body instead. When Emily, Daisy’s eldest daughter, makes plans to visit a college in northern Minnesota, the whole family decides to tag along to c...



  • If there's anything Mack Mercy hates more than politics, it's politicians. So when former classmate Prescott Martin, a Virginia politician, calls him with a problem, Mack is reluctant to meet with him. They were never friends in high school and Mack ...



  • Rainy might own a farm, but she doesn’t know a thing about cows. Especially when one goes missing and she’s enlisted to help find it. Mikey, her favorite chef at the Wicked Wich, is striking out on his own, opening a restaurant in nearby Winslow....



  • Mack Mercy's newest case is a long shot. Lainey's chance encounter with a horse owner puts Mack on the hunt for a missing racehorse. The prized prospect seemed to have a bright future in racing, and Mack soon learns that there are plenty of bad actor...



  • Sunshine, relaxation, and…murder. Daisy and the family are excited for their week-long Caribbean cruise, but the trip quickly derails with the discovery of a dead body. The ship's security detail seems more intent on making sure no one knows about ...



  • Dinner time isn’t supposed to be deadly.Not at home and not at a restaurant, and most certainly not at Oasis Ridge, the Florida retirement home where Sunny Springfield works as the activities director.But when a resident keels over at the dinner ta...



  • After nearly a decade, Elizabeth Tyler was finally found. But she's still lost. Going back to her family â€" the family she was stolen from as a small child â€" should have been easy for Elizabeth. But the emotional aftershocks of her abduction and t...



  • Wedding bells are ringing. and people are dying. Rainy's daughter, Laura, is in panic mode. The wedding she thought she had months to plan has suddenly been moved up, all thanks to her fiance's ailing grandmother. Desperate to help, Rainy...






  • Beauty is only skin deep…especially when someone ransacks and robs a freelancing senior citizen’s blossoming beauty business. Sunny Springfield has one thing she’s supposed to be focused on: an impending corporate visit at Oasis Ridge, the reti...



  • Being found doesn’t mean Elizabeth Tyler isn’t still lost. After a rough start to her road trip in search of answers to her past, Elizabeth finds herself in Phoenix. She knows why she’s there. The city is part of her history, whether she wants ...



  • It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Oasis Ridge. Except it isn’t December, and no one's in a very jolly mood. Sunny's attempts to fill the holidays with events for the residents at Oasis Ridge are once again being thwarted by her boss, A...



  • Elizabeth Tyler is at the end of the road. She’s come full circle, back to Minnesota, to the place she was taken after being abducted from her real family. Elizabeth [is there because] wants answers. She wants to know what her adopted family knew a...



  • Working as a bouncer at a local nightclub isn’t Noah Braddock’s ideal gig. He’d rather be solving cases, but his private investigator skills aren’t exactly in high demand…until Cynthia Guzman, a local immigration attorney, shows up at the d...



  • It's the most wonderful time of the year...until a grinch steals Christmas… The holidays are here, and Daisy and her family can’t wait for Moose River’s annual holiday festival and parade. But when a scrooge decides to undeck the halls and stea...



  • A missing kid. Two desperate parents. And a story that just doesn’t add up. Joe Tyler knows all about finding missing kids, so when Desmond Locker’s parents ask for help locating their son, he agrees to take the case. Having quit his teaching job...



  • Noah's going back to college…but this time, to investigate a death.A young co-ed’s death has been ruled an accident, but the university fears a lawsuit from the girl's family and hires Noah to gather as much information as possible about the nigh...



  • A summer stay at Northwoods University is the perfect way for Daisy Savage and her family to vacation together…until someone ends up dead in one of the dorms. With Emily, her oldest daughter, working as a resident assistant, her ties to t...



  • A new thriller from the bestselling author of Thread of Hope. When Kat Maddox's family set out for a day of fishing and never returned, the crushing pain and heartache brought her life to a standstill. Until she saw a flyer for a missing boy.&nb...






  • An old friend comes calling, asking for help and willing to pay Noah a premium price. But Darren Van Welker isn't really an old friend – he's more of an old enemy from high school. He needs his son found, and he wants Noah to do the job.&n...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jeff Shelby has published 50 books.

Jeff Shelby does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bail Out, was published in March 2021.

The first book by Jeff Shelby, Killer Swell, was published in June 2005.

Yes. Jeff Shelby has 7 series.